Last year Terry Mendoza from Retro Photostudio ran a vintage lingerie photoshoot in Brighton which featured on the front cover of Milkcow Vintage. At the end of January he’s back and is searching for his next shoot star.

French accessories designer Jerome Dreyfuss name-checked North Laine institution Snoopers Paradise as one of his favourite shops in Stella magazine’s Little Black Book feature this weekend, saying “you are sure to find something wonderful in this North Laine fleamarket”.

‘Every silver lining has a cloud’ and ‘win something ‘oribble’, are the unconventional promotional messages tempting shoppers to try their luck at The Yard Market’s Trauma Tombola. Here are some of the ‘lucky’ winners with their prizes.

Celebrated British vintage label Horrockses has launched a new website selling bedlinen and silk cushions inspired by 1940s and 1950s patterns from the original Horrockses dresses. The site also hosts a forum, a history section and competitions.

Images from the first Nigel’s Eco Market at The Friend’s Meeting House, Ship Street. Lots of lovely vintage, up-cycled and handmade goodies, plus tea and cake served on vintage china, courtesy of Roses All Over.

Oh deary me, what have we here then? Only a brand new traditional sweet shop in the centre of The Lanes! Bursting with jars and packets full of your favourite sweet treats, as well as speciality chocolates and fabulous window displays, the temptation is just too much.

Helen Ruff, based in Shoreham, is creative director of Doily Days, an event company specialising in vintage theming. Here she tells us what an average day on the job entails, from filling favours to musing over mood boards, lights on to celebratory glass of bubbly…

In the first of a new series, championing Brighton’s crafty creatives, we talk to Lucy Ashworth from Little Things i Make about her cute foxy felt friends. Luckily for us, her cheeky little creations will soon be available online.

Adapted from Graham Green’s 1939 novel, which became one of the most successful British noir titles when a twenty-something Richard Attenborough starred in the first film version in 1947, Brighton Rock has been imagined once again, this time in 1960s mods and rockers’ era Brighton.

The 2011 adaptation, which premieres at Brighton’s Duke of York’s Picturehouse on 26 January, stars Sam Riley (Control) and Andrea Riseborough (Made in Dagenham) as gangster Pinkie and the vulnerable waitress Rose he seduces into silence after she stumbles upon evidence linking him to a revenge killing.

Having established that there was nothing in the book to link it to the year (1939) in which it was set, the film’s screenwriters and director felt that Pinkie’s intent to overthrow the organised order of older gangsters fitted well with the youth-fired social change that the 1960s bore witness to.

The 1960s also saw the death penalty abolished in Britain and gangsters such as the notorious Kray Twins begin to enjoy celebrity status.

While the film is set in Brighton, much of it is filmed in Eastbourne, which location scouts felt has retained the look of a more authentic 1960s seaside resort. However, the South Lanes and other Brighton locations are easily recognisable in the chase scenes, as they were in the original film.

If you’re looking to get your business noticed by Brighton’s thriving vintage community, VintageBrighton.com is the place to do it. Since our launch in September, the site has attracted the attention of thousands of vintage-lovers, who are your potential customers.